Dr Leslie G. Mitchell MA, DPhil, FRHistS is an academic historian specialising in British history.
Mitchell is currently an Emeritus Fellow of University College and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, England. He has been Dean of the college, appeared in the Univ Revue, recruited students for work in the intelligence services and was editor of the University College Record, an annual publication for former members of the college. Mitchell is counted among a talented generation of post-war historians, including Maurice Keen, Alexander Murray and Henry Mayr-Harting.
Books
Mark Bostridge, Maurice Bowra: A life, By Leslie Mitchell, The Independent, 22 February 2009.Ronan McDonald, The life and times of an Oxford don who never flowed quietly, The Guardian, 15 March 2009.Melvyn Bragg, Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell, review, The Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2009.
Reception to Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
Reception to The Whig World
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